The Climate Denier's Playbook

Why reduce our CO2 emissions when we have a perfectly good Bond-villain plan to stop the sun from heating Earth up in the first place?

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• Created by: Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan & Ben Boult
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• Producer: Gregory Haddock 
• Editor: Brittany Terrell
• Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale
• Art: Jordan Doll 
• Music: Tony Domenick 
• Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center

SOURCES

• Ali, S. (2021, November 22). Controversial practice of seeding clouds to create rainfall becoming popular in the American West. The Hill. 
• American University. (2020, June 24). Fact Sheet: Ocean Alkalinization. American University. 
• Berardelli, J. (2018, November 23). Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming. Cbsnews.com. 
• Biello, D. (2012, July 12). Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink. Scientific American. 
• Boyd, P., & Vivian, C. (2019). Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows. Nature, 570(7760), 155–157. 
• Brogan, J. (2016a, January 6). Can We Stop Climate Change by Tinkering With the Atmosphere? Slate Magazine; Slate. 
• Brogan, J. (2016b, January 6). Your Geoengineering Cheat Sheet. Slate. 
• Buckley, C. (2024, February 2). Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? The New York Times. 
• Chu, J. (2020, February 17). Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
• Clegg, B. (2016, July 23). The Planet Remade - Oliver Morton ****. Popsciencebooks.blogspot.com. 
• Cohen, A. (2021, January 11). A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? Forbes. 
• Collins, G. (2016, January 15). Geoengineering’s Moral Hazard Problem. Slate. 
• Geoengineering Monitor. (2021, April 9). Ocean Fertilization (technology briefing). Geoengineering Monitor. 
• Hickel, J., & Slamersak, A. (2022). Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(7), e628–e631. 
• IPCC95. (1995). INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC Second Assessment Climate Change 1995 A REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE. 
• Jiang, X., Zhao, X., Sun, X., Roberts, A. P., Appy Sluijs, Chou, Y.-M., Yao, W., Xing, J., Zhang, W., & Liu, Q. (2024). Iron fertilization–induced deoxygenation of eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean intermediate waters during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum. Geology. 
• Kaufman, R. (2019, March 11). The Risks, Rewards and Possible Ramifications of Geoengineering Earth’s Climate. Smithsonian; Smithsonian.com. 
• Keith, D. W. (2000). Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 25(1), 245–284. 
• Mandel, K. (2015, September 29). Everyone Warned the Breakthrough Ecomodernists To Avoid Toxic Owen Paterson – But They Said “F@*%You.” DeSmog. 
• McKenzie, J. (2022, August 11). Dodging silver bullets: how cloud seeding could go wrong. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 
• Monbiot, G. (2015, September 24). Meet the ecomodernists: ignorant of history and paradoxically old-fashioned. The Guardian. 
• Morton, O. (2012, August 9). On Geoengineering. The Breakthrough Institute. 
• Morton, O. (2016). The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world. Princeton University Press.
• National Academy of Sciences. (1992). Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base. In National Academies Press. National Academies Press. 
• Robock, A. (2008). 20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 64(2), 14–18. 
• Rubin, A. J., & Denton, B. (2022, August 28). Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front. The New York Times. 
• Schneider, S. H. (2008). Geoengineering: could we or should we make it work? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366(1882), 3843–3862. 
• Seabrook, V. (2016, October 10). Professor Brian Cox and Co Take Down Climate Science Deniers’ Arguments, Discuss Brexit. DeSmog. 
• Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. (n.d.). Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. 
• Stephens, J. C., & Surprise, K. (2020). The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research. Global Sustainability, 3. 
• Temple, J. (2019, August 9). What is geoengineering—and why should you care? MIT Technology Review. 
• Temple, J. (2022, July 1). The US government is developing a solar geoengineering research plan. MIT Technology Review. 
• The Breakthrough Institute. (2015, April 1). An Ecomodernist Manifesto - English. The Breakthrough Institute. 
• Tollefson, J. (2018). First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth. Nature, 563(7733), 613–615. 
• Unit, B. (2017, March 23). Climate-related Geoengineering and Biodiversity. Www.cbd.int. 
• UNODA. (1978, October 5). Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) – UNODA. United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. 
• Vetter, D. (2022, January 20). Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, But These Experts Want To Stop It. Forbes. 
• Vidal, J. (2012, February 6). Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering. The Guardian. 
• Visioni, D., Slessarev, E., MacMartin, D. G., Mahowald, N. M., Goodale, C. L., & Xia, L. (2020). What goes up must come down: impacts of deposition in a sulfate geoengineering scenario. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 094063. 
• Wagner, G. (2016, December 8). The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton. Www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org. 
• Yonekura, E. (2022, October 19). Why Not Space Mirrors? The Rand Blog.

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Great news! We’re back with a second season of Finland’s 8th favorite comedy podcast, The Climate Denier’s Playbook! Full episodes dropping in early March, and in the meantime, we’re here to give you a little peek at the climate myths we’ll be ghost-busting for Season 2. We’ll also answer some listener-submitted questions, and even crack wise about a fun little Tucker Carlson clip that didn’t fit anywhere else in the season. 

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• Producer: Gregory Haddock 
• Editor: Brittany Terrell
• Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale
• Art: Jordan Doll 
• Music: Tony Domenick 
• Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center

SOURCES

• World On Fire - YouTube [Nicole’s YouTube channel!]
• Carlson, Tucker (2024, Jan 9). The Tucker Carlson Encounter: The Truth About Fossil Fuels

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In his defense, how much could the climate possibly have changed in the 6,000 years the earth has existed?

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SOURCES

• New US House speaker tried to help overturn the 2020 election, raising concerns about the next one. (2023, October 26). AP News.
• Hall, M. (n.d.). New Speaker Mike Johnson says the way to learn how feels about any issue is to read the Bible: “That’s my worldview, that’s what I believe.” Business Insider. 
• Staff, P. P. (2023, October 25). Here’s where Speaker Mike Johnson stands on the issues. POLITICO.
• New House speaker’s views on LGBTQ issues come under fresh scrutiny. (2023, October 26). NBC News.
• Macnaughton, S. (2023, October 29). Inside the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Anti-LGBTQ Org Where Mike Johnson Spent Almost a Decade. Rolling Stone.
• Nast, C. (2023, October 26). Election Denial, “Sexual Anarchy,” Noah’s Ark: All the Mike Johnson Details We Regret to Inform You Of. Vanity Fair.
• Hamilton, M. A. (2023, November 4). Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America. The Guardian.
• Griffiths, B. D. (n.d.). Kelly Johnson, who is married to House Speaker Mike Johnson, practices a form of Christian counseling that classifies people into “choleric”, “phlegmatic,” and other ancient personality types purportedly ordained by God. Business Insider.
• New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is “Pointing People To The Truth.” (2023, October 26). HuffPost.
• Tait, R. (2023, October 26). House speaker once won taxpayer funds for Noah’s Ark park accused of bias. The Guardian.
• U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson and Climate Change. (n.d.). The Shreveport Times,
• Worldometer. (2016). CO2 Emissions per Capita - Worldometer.
• AJLabs. (n.d.). How much does Africa contribute to global carbon emissions? Al Jazeera.
• Ramanujan, K. (2021, October 19). More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change. Cornell Chronicle; Cornell University. 
• Watts, J. (2021, October 19). “Case closed”: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans. The Guardian.
• Lynas, M., Houlton, B. Z., & Perry, S. (2021). Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Environmental Research Letter
• Johnson, U. S. R. M. (n.d.). Rep. Johnson: Paris climate deal was bad for U.S. The Shreveport Times.
• Republican Study Committee Backgrounder: A Greedy New Steal, 13 Page Report. Mike Johnson. Washington Times.
• Johnson, Mike. “This bill will raise taxes on the middle class and increase prices for consumers.” X (Formerly Twitter).
• Who is running for House speaker? These are the Republicans aiming for the top job after Jordan’s exit. (n.d.). USA TODAY.
• Mike Johnson’s Environmental Voting Record. League of Conservation Voters Scorecard.
• Friedman, L. (2023, October 26). New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns. The New York Times. 
• Brugger, E. D., Kelsey. (2023, October 25). Mike Johnson, a climate science skeptic, is speaker nominee. E&E News by POLITICO. 
• House Speaker Mike Johnson’s First Big Bill Cuts Biden’s Climate Change Funding. (2023, October 26). Bloomberg. 
• Brugger, E. D., Kelsey. (2023, October 4). What McCarthy’s fall means for energy, environment policy. E&E News by POLITICO. 
• What does the US Speaker of the House do? (2023, January 4). BBC News. 
• New House Speaker Widens Partisan Climate Divide. (2023, October 29). Bloomberg.com. 
• Trubek, A. (2019, December 18). Jim Jordan’s Gerrymandered District - Belt Magazine. Beltmag.com.
• North Carolina’s new GOP gerrymander could flip four House seats. (2023, October 25). POLITICO. 

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How can America be expected to lead when we don’t want to?!

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• Art: Jordan Doll 
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SOURCES

• Haley, N. (2023, August 23). 2024 First Republican Presidential Debate in FULL. YouTube.
• Kurz, J. (2020, February 28). ‘But what about China and India?’ National Observer.
• European Commission. (2022). CO2 emissions of all world countries. EDGAR - The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research.
• Our Changing Climate. (2023, May 5). Why China Isn’t the Problem. YouTube.
• Carbon footprint hotspots: Mapping China’s export-driven emissions. (2020, May 7). University of Michigan News.
• Friedman, L. (2023, July 19). U.S. and China on Climate: How the World’s Two Largest Polluters Stack Up. The New York Times.
• Evans, S. (2021, October 5). Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? Carbon Brief.
• Union of Concerned Scientists. (2023, July 12). Each Country’s Share of CO2 Emissions. Union of Concerned Scientists.
• Yeung, J., Gan, N., & George, S. (2021, August 23). Analysis: Beijing’s fight for cleaner air is a rare victory for public dissent. CNN. 
• Mailloux, N. A., Abel, D. W., Holloway, T., & Patz, J. A. (2022). Nationwide and regional PM2.5-related air quality health benefits from the removal of energy-related emissions in the United States. GeoHealth, 6, e2022GH000603.
• Hersher, R. (2022, May 17). Eliminating fossil fuel air pollution would save about 50,000 lives, study finds. NPR.
• Mathiesen, K., & Posaner, J. (2023, September 15). How China schooled the West on climate change. POLITICO.
• Schonhardt, S. (2023, January 30). China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S. Scientific American. 
• McGeever, J. (2023, August 20). The ultimate 2023 consensus-buster - US grows faster than China? Reuters.
• Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Year 2022 (Third Estimate), GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits. (2023, March 30). Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
• Gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices in China from 1985 to 2022 with forecasts until 2028. (2023). Statista.
• Gallagher, K. S. (2023, August 3). The Right Way for America and China to Cooperate on Climate. Foreign Affairs.
• Begert, B. (2023, September 12). Newsom announces climate-focused trip to China. POLITICO.

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RED ALERT! The shadowy deep-state cabal of coastal elites that controls the world is using “ESGs” and wOkE CaPiTaLiSm to kneecap the American entrepreneurial spirit!

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SOURCES

• The Ingraham Angle. (2022, September 22). Fox News via Media Matters. 
• Little Rock Public Radio. (2023, March 22). Audio recording reveals coordinated push against ESG investing. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. 
• Capitalisn’t: The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing. (n.d.). The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
• Pucker, K. P., & King, A. (2022, August 1). ESG Investing Isn’t Designed to Save the Planet. Harvard Business Review.
• Dierking, D. (2022, May 19). S&P 500 ESG Index: Tesla Out, ExxonMobil In. ETF Focus on TheStreet: ETF Research and Trade Ideas.
• Hillsdale College. “Woke Capitalism Against America | Vivek Ramaswamy.” (2021, May 20) Appears at 8:29. YouTube. 
• Pollman, E. (2022, 15 September). The Making and Meaning of ESG. U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-23. European Corporate Governance Institute.
• Fink, L. (2021). Larry Fink's 2021 letter to CEOs. BlackRock.
• Phillips, M. (2021, June 9). Exxon’s Board Defeat Signals the Rise of Social-Good Activists. The New York Times.
• Taft, M. (2022, October 21). The Right-Wing Groups Behind the War on ESG. The New Republic.
• Vogel, K. P. (2022, October 12). Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society. The New York Times.
• Floodlight, A. A. (2023, June 12). Lawmakers passed a bill to stop insurers from considering ESG criteria in setting rates. The Texas Tribune.
• D. Garrett et al. Gas, guns, and governments: Financial costs of anti-ESG policies. (n.d.). Brookings.
• Surgey, A. K. B. (n.d.). Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance.” ProPublica.
• Hoyle, E. (2023, July 12). MEMO: Leonard Leo Pulls the Strings Behind MAGA House 
• Masters, B. (2022, December 14). Vanguard spared ESG grilling in Texas after ditching green alliance. Financial Times.
• Lange, J. (2023, May 10).Congress’ ESG Hearing Was Seriously Weird. Heatmap.news. 
• Qiu, L. (2023, March 15). No, “Wokeness” Did Not Cause Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse. The New York Times.
• 2023 Statehouse Anti-ESG Report. (n.d.). Pleiades Strategy. 
• 2023 ESG State Legislation Wrap Up. (n.d.). Www.klgates.com.
• Rives, K. (2023, June 28) Half of anti-ESG bills in red states have failed in 2023 as campaign pushes on. (n.d.). S&P Global.
• Marino, K. (2023, February 22). Texas’ “anti-woke” policies cost taxpayers millions. Axios.
• Muñiz, L. B., March 20, I. C. C., & 2023. (2023, March 20). Indiana pension system contracts with conservative anti-ESG firm. Indiana Capital Chronicle.

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On a very special episode, Nicole and Rollie talk about their origin story, how they got into comedy and climate change, and more. You’ll NEVER guess what happened next! 

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SOURCES

• Rollie and Nicole’s collective memory

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Global warming too hot for you? Just go to the mall. 

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SOURCES

• Atkin, E. (2023, August 28). How Vivek Ramaswamy makes money from climate denial. Heated.world. 
• Bennet, G. (1970). Bristol Floods 1968. Controlled Survey of Effects on Health of Local Community Disaster. British Medical Journal, 3(5720), 454–458.
• Lomborg, B. (2007). Cool It. Vintage.
• Lomborg, B. (2012). The skeptical environmentalist : measuring the real state of the world. Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Burakoff, M. (2022a, April 1). Climate Connections: Warmer winters bring challenges for Wisconsin forests. Spectrumnews1.com. 
• Burakoff, M. (2022b, May 12). Flood risks from climate change challenge Wisconsin infrastructure. Spectrumnews1.com. 
• Christensen, J. (2019, March 2). Is it climate change or global warming? How science and a secret memo shaped the answer. CNN. 
• Christenson, M., Thelen, M., Vogt, C., & Meiman, J. (2020). EXTREME COLD IN WISCONSIN: TRENDS, SURVEILLANCE, AND PREVENTION COLD-RELATED ILLNESS TRENDS IN WISCONSIN Climate Change and Winter Weather. [PDF] 
• Cohen, J. (2023, July 19). Excessive Heat Can Kill, But Extreme Cold Still Causes Many More Fatalities. Forbes. 
• DeSmog. (n.d.). Bjørn Lomborg. DeSmog. 
• Dixon, P. G., Brommer, D. M., Hedquist, B. C., Kalkstein, A. J., Goodrich, G. B., Walter, J. C., Dickerson, C. C., Penny, S. J., & Cerveny, R. S. (2005). Heat Mortality Versus Cold Mortality: A Study of Conflicting Databases in the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86(7), 937–944. 
• Parker, S. G. (2022, April 13). Living with Climate Change: The Polar Vortex | Briefing | EESI. Www.eesi.org.
• Emory University. (2021, July 8). Global study: 5 million deaths a year linked to temperature changes | Emory University | Atlanta GA. News.emory.edu. 
• Fox News. (2022, August 30). Tucker Carlson Says Global Warming Is Not A Threat But Winter Is. Yahoo Sports; Fox News. 
• Friel, H. (2010). The Lomborg Deception. Yale University Press.
• Gittings, J. (2023, July 31). Tree-defoliating moth having a banner year in Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Journal. 
• Kamin, D. (2023, March 10). Out-of-Towners Head to “Climate-Proof Duluth.” The New York Times. 
• Lake, B. (2019, January 1). Year in Review: 2018 Flooding. WXOW. 
• Masuda, Y. J., Castro, B., Aggraeni, I., Wolff, N. H., Ebi, K., Garg, T., Game, E. T., Krenz, J., & Spector, J. (2019). How are healthy, working populations affected by increasing temperatures in the tropics? Implications for climate change adaptation policies. Global Environmental Change, 56, 29–40. 
• Media Matters Staff. (2021, July 6). Dennis Prager: “The great killer is cold, not heat. ... Global warming has actually been saving lives.” Media Matters for America. 
• MSNBC. (2023, September 10). Vivek Ramaswamy on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell 8.29.23. Www.youtube.com. 
• NOAA NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION. (2023, August 9). U.S. climate summary for July 2023 | NOAA Climate.gov. Www.climate.gov. 
• Ohl, C. A., & Tapsell, S. (2000). Flooding and human health. BMJ : British Medical Journal, 321(7270), 1167–1168.
• Robinson, P., & Lomborg, B. (2022, September 22). The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg On The Summer’s Record Heat. Hoover Institution. 
• Senate Budget Committee. (2023, April 26). “There Are 49 Other States”: Witness Fires Back At Johnson For Saying Climate Change Is Good For WI. Www.youtube.com. 
• Svitek, P. (2022, January 2). Texas puts final estimate of winter storm death toll at 246. The Texas Tribune. 
• Twitter, H. S. L. columnist T. (2023, February 16). Will global warming make temperature less deadly? Washington Post. 
• US Department of Commerce, N. (n.d.). Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics. Www.weather.gov. Retrieved 2023

CORRECTIONS

• This episode refers to the Hoover Institution as the Hoover Institute, which is pretty close if you ask us, but that’s not actually its name. 

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Carbon dioxide is part of a plant’s diet THEREFORE unmitigated carbon emissions are automatically a good thing.

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SOURCES

• 1992 Western Fuels Association “The Greening of Planet Earth.” (1992, January 1). Climate Files.
• Burrell, A. L., Evans, J. P., & De Kauwe, M. G. (2020). Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km 2 of drylands towards desertification. Nature Communications, 11(1), 3853. 
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• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. (2004, June 7). Center Staff. Web.archive.org.
• Cho, R. (2022, January 27). How Climate Change Will Affect Plants. State of the Planet; Columbia Climate School. 
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• Columbia Earth Institute. (2017, August 28). Climate May Quickly Drive Forest-Eating Beetles North, Says Study. State of the Planet. 
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• Gilbert, N. (2020, December 19). Will Rising Temperatures Make Superweeds Even Stronger? Wired. 
• Goldenberg, S. (2014, April 9). Climate change is good for you, says ultra-conservative Heartland Institute. The Guardian. 
• Goldenberg, S. (2018, February 14). Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science. The Guardian; The Guardian. 
• Goldenberg, S., & Bengtsson, H. (2016, June 13). Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change. The Guardian. 
• Green, J. K., Seneviratne, S. I., Berg, A. M., Findell, K. L., Hagemann, S., Lawrence, D. M., & Gentine, P. (2019). Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake. Nature, 565(7740), 476–479.
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First it was getting colder, now it’s getting hotter? wHiCh oNe iS iT?!

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• Executive Producer: Ben Boult 
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• Researcher: Carly Rizzuto 
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• Music: Tony Domenick

SOURCES

• The Public Domain Review: First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)
• Royal Meteorological Society: The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature (G.S. Callendar, 1938)
• NASA: World of Change: Global Temperatures
• SCISPACE: The Dominance of Tropospheric Sulfate in Modifying Solar Radiation (R.J. Charlson, 1976)
• Science: Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols (R.J. Charlson, 1992)
• TIME: Another Ice Age? (1974)
• SCRIBD: Newsweek's 'Global Cooling' Article From April 28, 1975 
• Brett Peake: In Search Of The Coming Ice Age ... With Leonard Nimoy (1978)
• American Meteorological Society: The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus (Peterson et al., 2008)
• National Research Council: Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment (1979)
• Climate Files: 1997 Exxon’s Lee Raymond Speech at World Petroleum Congress (1997) 
• Perma.cc: Exxon Media Statement - Global Climate Change (2001)
• Inside Climate News: Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago (2015)
• C-SPAN: Sen. James Inhofe Clip (2003)
• Politifact: “How to Survive The Coming Ice Age" was a Time magazine cover story in 1977 - FALSE (2019)
• Climate Feedback: 1977 “coming ice age” Time magazine cover is a fake (2019)
• TIME: Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age (2019)
• Politico: How Trump gets his fake news (2017) 
• Twitter: Trump Tweet (2013) 
• JRE Podcast: Joe Rogan Experience #1928 – Jimmy Corsetti & Ben van Kerkwyk (2023)
• C-SPAN: President Trump: "I don't think science knows, actually." (YouTube, 2020)
• Wikipedia: Global Cooling

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NO!!! The radical left is using climate lockdowns to imprison us in communist cities where we’ll be forced to walk to all the nearby amenities.

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SOURCES

• Google Trends: “15 Min City” Search term interest since 2018
• What Is A "15 Minute City" & Why Are They Part Of "The Great Reset"? w/ Marc Morano – Ask Dr. Drew (YouTube)
• AFP Factcheck: Ohio train derailment fuels 15-minute city conspiracy theories (2023) 
• Instagram post by standupcardiff (2023)
• Reuters Fact Check: Fact Check-‘15-minute city’ is an urban planning concept that promotes easy access to essential amenities (2023)
• Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ‘Climate Lockdown’ and the Culture Wars: How COVID-19 Sparked a New Narrative Against Climate Action (2021) 
• Project Syndicate: Avoiding a Climate Lockdown (2020)
• MarketWatch: Opinion: We need to act boldly now if we are to avoid economy-wide lockdowns to halt climate change (2020) 
• TedTalk by Carlos Moreno: The 15-minute city
• MPDI: Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities (2021)
• NYT: He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’ (2023)
• Teen Vogue: What Are “15-Minute Cities” and Why Are Conspiracy Theorists Worried About Them?  (2023)
• NewsBusters: Soros/Gates-Funded Org ($6.5M): World May Need ‘Climate Lockdown' (2020)
• IPCC: Climate Change 2022 Mitigation of Climate Change, Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022, PDF Download)
• Coin Bureau: 15 Minute Cities: Oxford Won't Be the Same! (YouTube, 2023)
• Climate Depot: UK Guardian activists hope Coronavirus lockdown becomes climate lockdown: ‘What was once impossible (socialist, reckless) now turns out not to be, at all’ (2020)
• Oxfordshire County Council: Consultation on trial traffic filters (2022)
• Oxfordshire County Council: Traffic filters: What traffic filters are and how they will work.
• Oxfordshire City Counci’s Twitter post about 15 Minute Cities
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• The Daily Sceptic: Oxford County Councillors to Introduce Trial Climate Lockdown in 2024 (2022) 
• Archive.org: Jordan Peterson Tweet (2022)
• Twitter: The New Statesman: The 15-minute City is a working-class nightmare (2023)
• Forbes: Tory MP Uses Conspiracy Theory In U.K. Parliament Against 15-Minute City Concept (2023)
• Archive.org: Fox News: The Ingraham Angle: In a Net-Zero Economy, You’ll Be Cold and Hungry (2023)
• USA Today: Fact Check: False claim UK city will test 'climate lockdowns' in 2024 (2022)
• AP News: Traffic plan in Oxfordshire, England, isn’t a ‘climate lockdown’ (2022)
• Reuters: Fact Check-Oxfordshire County Council to trial congestion-reducing traffic filters, not a ‘climate lockdown’ that stops residents leaving neighbourhoods (2022)
• DeSmog: Revealed: The Science Denial Network Behind Oxford’s ‘Climate Lockdown’ Backlash (2023)
• Bloomberg: The 15-Minute City Freakout Is a Case Study in Conspiracy Paranoia (2023)
• C40: Introducing Spotlight On: 15-minute cities (2021)
• Portland.gov: The Portland Plan (2012) 
• The Guardian: The Guardian view on the climate and coronavirus: global warnings (2020)

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The thing these “scientists” will never tell you is that the sun has natural cycles that are causing all the climate change.

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SOURCES

• Milankovitch Cycles NASA Article
• How scientists know it’s not just Milankovitch Cycles 
• More Milankovitch Science
• NASA 11-Year Cycle
• Space.com Solar Cycle
• Sun Spots
• NASA on Sun Spots and Solar Flares
• PBA Lane Maintenance Philosophy
• Best of Bowling: “Bowling Oil Patterns Explained (2022 Complete Guide)” 
• NASA: “Is the Sun Causing Global Warming?”
• NASA: “Why Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming” (2020)
• Skeptical Science: “Sun & climate: moving in opposite directions”
• Media Matters: “Fox Responds To New Obama Climate Action With Global Warming Denial” (2013)
• Tucker Carlson clip
• Ron Johnson clip
• 2003 James Inhofe speech video (C-SPAN)
• Willie Soon paper: “Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years” (PDF download)
• Transcription of Willie Soon’s 2003 testimony before U.S. Congress Committee on Environment and Public Works 
• Catalog of Willie Soon’s academic publications (ResearchGate)
• Inside Climate News: “Documents Reveal Fossil Fuel Fingerprints on Contrarian Climate Research” (2015)
• NYT: Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher (2015)
• “Global Warming Swindle Debate Pt2” (YouTube)
• Piers Corbyn on RT in 2010, video clip
• Politifact: No, climate change isn’t driven by solar activity and lunar phases (Piers Corbyn clip on social media in 2022)
• Laura Ingraham 2022 Fox News clip, “There is no climate crisis: Tom Harris” (YouTube)

CORRECTIONS

• The documented meeting in which Dr. James Black informed Exxon executives of the dangers of climate change and its connection to fossil fuels took place in 1977, not 1979.

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Once we get everyone in an electric vehicle, we’ll be all good, brother! 

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SOURCES

• E.P.A. Lays Out Rules to Turbocharge Sales of Electric Cars and Trucks (NYT, 2023) 
• E-BIKE ACT (Congress.gov) 
• 9,000-Pound Electric Hummer Shows We Can’t Ignore Efficiency of EVs (ACEE, 2021) 
• Carmakers are pushing electric SUVs, but smaller is better when it comes to EVs (Guardian, 2023)
• Big electric trucks and SUVs are the new gas guzzlers (QZ, 2022) 
• Will Ferrell Super Bowl Ad - General Motors [2021] (YouTube)
• The Death of the Chevy Bolt Is Bad News for Earth (Gizmodo, 2023)
• Credits for New Clean Vehicles Purchased in 2023 or After (IRS, 2023) 
• Democratic Lawmakers Want to Give You Up to $1,500 to Buy an Electric Bike. Here's Why (NBC New York, 2023)
• These are the electric vehicles that qualify for a $7,500 tax credit (CBS News, 2023)

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How dare you criticize fossil fuels! Don’t you know you live in a society that has become utterly dependent on them?!? 

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SOURCES

• Richard Madeley Clashes With Climate Activist In Fiery Oil Protest Debate | Good Morning Britain (ITV, 2022) 
• Leslie Nielsen for Shell 1981 TV commercial (YouTube) 
• Energy Transfer: Life Runs On Energy, Connected by Oil and Natural Gas, Energy Transfer TV Commercial (YouTube) 
• 1997 Newspaper Advertisements by ClimateFacts.org, Global Climate Coalition, trade associations and unions (ClimateFiles) 
• Epcot's 30th: Mickey and Goofy Explore The Universe of Energy (Practical WDW) 
• API: Oil Progress Week Cartoon 
• The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing (Guardian, 2021) 
• Clear Energy Alliance: Thanks, Fossil Fuels (YouTube) 
• Friday Funny: Greta Thunberg’s perfect petroleum-free world (Watts Up With That?)  

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From the minds that brought you Climate Town, comes… a podcast that's suspiciously similar to Climate Town.

Rollie Williams (Climate Town) and Nicole Conlan (The Daily Show) are two comedians with Master's Degrees in Climate Science & Policy and Urban Planning. But don’t get too excited, because they’re here to examine the pervasive myths and misinformation campaigns that are making it obnoxiously difficult to address the looming climate crisis you've probably heard about.

If you're looking to get your hands (ears) on some of the absolute coldest, hardest, climate changing-est facts to help sift through the noise, then you've come to the right place, brother.

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